Publications
Peer-reviewed articles, books, chapters & more
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Swanson, Kate. 2024. The Emotion, Space and Society AAG Lecture: Emotional entanglements in a world that’s falling apart.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Emotion, Space and Society. 101002.
Thompson, Amy, Rebecca Maria Torres, Kate Swanson, Sarah A. Blue and Óscar Misael Hernández Hernández. 2022. Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 39-58 in Undocumented and Unaccompanied: Children of Migration in the European Union and the United States. London: Routledge.
Torres, Rebecca Maria, Kate Swanson, Caroline Faria, Tamara Segura, Sarah Blue. 2022.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Bordering through Care and Control: Policing and Sheltering Central American Migrant Youth in Mexico. Political Geography. 98: 102719.
Ciborowski, Haley M., Samantha Hurst, Ramona L. Perez, Kate Swanson, Eric Leas, Kimberly C. Brouwer, Holly Baker Shakya. 2022.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Through our own eyes and voices: The experiences of those “left-behind” in rural, Indigenous migrant-sending communities in western Guatemala. Journal of Migration and Health. Volume 5, 100096.
Torres, Rebecca Maria, Sarah Blue, Caroline Faria, Tamara Segura, Kate Swanson. 2022.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
“Asylum is not for Mexicans”: Unaccompanied youth and racio-governance at the US border. Geopolitics.
Stoler, Justin, Diana Ter-Ghazaryan, Ira Sheskin,Amber L. Pearson,Gary Schnakenberg, Dominique Cagalanan,Kate Swanson, Piotr Jankowski. 2021.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
What’s in a name? Undergraduate student perceptions of geography, environment, and sustainability key words and program names. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 11(2):317-342.
Delgado, Emanuel and Kate Swanson. 2021.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Gentefication in the barrio: Art, displacement and urban change in Southern California. Journal of Urban Affairs. 43: 925-940.
The Impacts of COVID-19 on the SDSU Community. ESRI StoryMap. February 5, 2021.
| StoryMap
Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.
Swanson, Kate. 2020. Urban ethnography.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 57-73 in Researching the City: A Guide for Students, 2nd Edition. Edited by Kevin Ward. London: Sage Press.
Swanson, Kate. 2020. Children and young people in Latin America: Inequality, rights and empowerment.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 191-206 in Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, 4th edition. E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (Eds.). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Wood, Lydia, Kate Swanson and Don Colley. 2020.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Tenets for a radical care ethics in geography. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. 19(2):424-447.
Thompson, Amy, Rebecca M. Torres, Kate Swanson, Sarah A. Blue & Óscar Misael Hernández Hernández. 2019.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 45: 235-252.
Gilliam, Shea Ellen and Kate Swanson. 2019. A cautionary tale: Trauma, ethics and mentorship in research.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Gender, Place and Culture. 27: 903-911.
Askins, Kye and Kate Swanson. 2019. Holding onto emotions: politics, social justice and academic approaches.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Emotion, Space and Society. 33. 100617.
Gutierrez, Jose, Paul Martin, Sam Orndoff, Aliona Galkina, Mckenna Kull, Steven Webb, and Kate Swanson. (2018).
| Professional reports
A Glance From Our Stance: Educational Experiences at SDSU. San Diego State University, San Diego. Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.
Swanson, Kate. 2018. Street vendors.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 355-363 in The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development. J. Cupples, M. Palomino-Schalscha and M. Prieto (Eds.). London: Routledge.
Swanson, Kate. 2018. From New York to Ecuador and back again: Transnational journeys of policies and people.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 90-98 in in Social Justice and the City. N. Heynen (Ed.) New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-32274-5
Swanson, Kate. 2018. From New York to Ecuador and back again: Transnational journeys of policies and people.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108: 390-398.
Pearson, Elliot, Kate Swanson and Thomas Herman. 2017. A Study of Young People’s Geographical Knowledge, Global Awareness, and Attitudes Toward Geography Education. San Diego: Department of Geography, San Diego State University and California Geographic Alliance.
| Professional reports
Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.
Swanson, Kate, Richard Caslow and Leilani Konrad. 2017. Perceptions & Knowledge of Geography on an American College Campus. San Diego: Department of Geography, San Diego State University.
| Professional reports
Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.
Mackie, Peter, Kate Swanson and Ryan Goode. 2017. Reclaiming space: street trading and revanchism in Latin America.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 63-76 in Rebel Streets, Informal Economies and the Law. A. Brown (Ed). London: Routledge.
Conners, Erin E., Kate Swanson, Sonia Morales Miranda, Carmen Fernández Casanueva, Valerie Mercer, Kimberly Brouwer. 2017.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
HIV risk behaviors and correlates of inconsistent condom use among substance using Central American migrants. AIDS and Behavior. 21: 2033-2045.
Swanson, Kate and Thomas Herman. 2017. Geography is global.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Social Studies Review. 55: 31-34.
Wood, Lydia, Stuart Aitken and Kate Swanson. 2016. Young people’s rights to recreate spaces and reimagine borders.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 1-22 in Geographies of Children and Young People. Space, Landscape, and Environment. Karen Nairn, Peter Kraftl, and Tracey Skelton (Eds.). London: Springer.
Swanson, Kate. 2016. Children and young people in Latin America: Inequality, rights and empowerment.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 189-203 in Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, 3rd edition. E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (Eds.). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Swanson, Kate and Rebecca M. Torres. 2016. Child migration and transnationalized violence in Central and North America.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Journal of Latin American Geography. 15: 23-48. * JLAG Most Downloaded in 2017
Swanson, Kate. 2014. Urban ethnography.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 54-69 in Researching the City: A Guide for Students. Edited by Kevin Ward. London: Sage Press.
Swanson, Kate. 2014. Where is home? An autoethnography of academic migration.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 27-40 in Transnational Borders, Transnational Lives. Academic Mobility at the Borderlands. Rémy Tremblay and Susan Hardwick (Eds.). Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Aitken, Stuart, Kate Swanson and Elizabeth Kennedy. 2014. Unaccompanied migrant children and youth: navigating relational borderlands.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 214-240 in Children and Borders by Spyros Spyrou and Miranda Christou (Eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Goode, Ryan J., Kate Swanson and Stuart C. Aitken. 2013. From God to Men: media and the turbulent fight for Rio’s favelas.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 161-180 in G. H. Curti, J. Craine, and S. Aitken (eds.). The Fight to Stay Put: Social Lessons through Media Imaginings of Urban Transformation and Change. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Swanson, Kate. 2013. Zero tolerance in Latin America: punitive paradox in urban policy mobilities.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Urban Geography. 34: 972-988.
Goerisch, Denise and Kate Swanson. 2013. ‘It’s called Girl Scouts, not, like, Woman Scouts’: Emotional labour and girls’ bodies.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Children’s Geographies. 13: 451-466.
Swanson, Kate. 2012. Children and young people in Latin America.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 187-201 in E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (eds.), Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, 2nd edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Aitken, Stuart C., Kate Swanson, Fernando Bosco and Thomas Herman (Eds.). 2011. Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations in Children’s Geographies.
| Edited journal collections
This special issue features writings by fourteen scholars from academic institutes in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Notably, Routledge published this special issue as a separate book in Spring 2011 (see above, under Peer-reviewed books).
Swanson, Kate. 2011. ‘For every border, there is also a bridge’: overturning borders in young Indigenous lives.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 103-110 in S. Aitken, K. Swanson, F. Bosco and T. Herman (eds.), Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations. New York: Routledge.
Aitken, Stuart C., Kate Swanson, Fernando Bosco and Thomas Herman (Eds.). 2011.
| Peer-reviewed books
Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations. New York: Routledge.
Swanson, Kate. 2010. ‘For every border, there is also a bridge’: overturning borders in young Indigenous lives.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Children’s Geographies. 8: 429-436.
Cumbers, Andy, Gesa Helms and Kate Swanson. 2010. Class, agency and resistance in the old industrial city. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
42:46-73. *Reprinted in March 2012 in a virtual and open-access Antipode special issue titled, “The Protester.”
Swanson, Kate. 2010. Pidiendo Caridad en la Ciudad: Mujeres y Niños Indígenas en las Calles de Ecuador.
| Peer-reviewed books
Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)-Abya Yala.
Swanson, Kate. 2010. Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador’s Urban Spaces.
| Peer-reviewed books
Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation book series. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Philo, Chris and Kate Swanson. 2008. Afterword: global portraits and local snapshots.
| Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pages 193-207 in C. Jeffrey and J. Dyson (eds.), Telling Young Lives: Portraits of Global Youth. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Swanson, Kate. 2007. “Bad mothers” and “delinquent children”: unravelling anti-begging rhetoric in the Ecuadorian Andes.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. 14: 703-720.
Swanson, Kate. 2007. Revanchist urbanism heads south: the regulation of Indigenous beggars and street vendors in Ecuador.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 39: 708-728.
Swanson, Kate, Richard G. Kuhn and Wei Xu. 2001. Environmental policy implementation in rural China: a case study of Yuhang, Zhejiang.
| Peer-reviewed journal articles
Environmental Management. 27: 481-491.